RailModeller Pro vs EmpireExpress vs AnyRail vs XTrackCAD?

I've been drafting out a TOMA layout in XTrackCAD, and just running into a lot of problems with the software. On macOS it uses XQuartz, which has varying degress of crappiness. So, in short, I'm looking for something else.

MRH comments pointed me towards the options listed in the subject; RailModeller Pro, EmpireExpress, & AnyRail. Any opinions on them? Anyone used any of them? All of them? None of them?

From the gloss and shine point of view, Rail Modeller looks incredible, particularly the repeat function. But I thought I'd ask fellow /n/gineers what they thought.

The saddle is not the greatest, the tires are cheap, and the gear ratio isn't the best. I changed the rear cog out for one that has 20t and it made it way more enjoyable for commuting although 18t would have worked as well.

It served me for years and thousands of miles. Best $60 dollars I ever spent.

>>1105678Read the error messages that pop up. They tell you everything you need to know... it's usually just a 16 bit installer issue (replace setup.exe with a 32 bit one) or an ancient .dll (download it and throw it in the game dir)

been playing trains since 1.1.1 until 2009, which was the last one worth playing. One of the best editors I've ever used in games and where I come from it had a solid community, both playing, map- and mod-making. I was mostly into mapmaking myself, 2004 was pretty good-looking by contemporary standards.

>>1107062do ithave good time for me as well, I'd play, but I'd only end up trying to make mods work again and never get to actually play

Interurban General

The interurban (or radial railway) is a type of electric railway, with streetcar-like light electric self-propelled railcars which run within and between cities or towns. They were prevalent in North America between 1900 and 1925 and were used primarily for passenger travel between cities and their surrounding suburban and rural communities. Limited examples existed in Europe and Asia. Interurban as a term encompassed the companies, their infrastructure, and the cars that ran on the rails.

George W. Hilton and John F. Due identified four characteristics of an interurban:

>Electric power for propulsion.>Passenger service as the primary business.>Equipment heavier and faster than urban streetcars.>Operation on tracks in city streets, and in rural areas on roadside tracks or private right-of-way.

>>1108379To expand, i think the term "interurban" is only really applicable in the historical context of urban development, and not as a word for certain characteristics of a railway. It's the product of the first waves of suburbanisation, and washed away by the rapid acceleration of that process past WWII. Even if you rebulit the North Shore system today, it wouldn't be an interurban, but a commuter line or metro line or Stadtbahn or whatever you want to call it. There are no city centers with ground-level streetcars and no suburban towns, just a giant suburban area.

>>1112005Multiple studies have found that in Idaho, where it is legal to run reds and stop signs, has fewer cyclist crashes. Other areas that have implemented the same rules also show either no increase or a decrease.

>>1111654Nope, not poor at all. Engineer here. >ride shared vanpool to work (factory in the suburbs with poor fixed route transit access) and back>live in reasonably dense neighborhood so I can walk, bike, bus/LRT, or uberpool to the pub, to sporting events, to run errands, etcI save several hundred dollars a month by not owning a car and I'm not significantly inconvenienced in any major way.

Velomobiles can't replace cars, but they can replace scooters and mopeds. Scooters and mopeds pollute a lot more than cars or trucks, and the exhaust is a lot unhealthier for bystanders. Also as velomobile production increases, they'll become cheaper and cheaper. You can already buy pic related on the second hand Dutch market for 2k euros. Soon that will be 1.5 and lower, it'll be an adequate alternative for mopeds.

>>1108681Not that anon but looking just at snapshots of Earth's geological history can be misleading. Transitions are harmful if they're too fast for life to adapt. The rate at which species currently die out is about the same as 65mya when that asteroid hit Earth.